Textile Tableland Studio

Textile is a data technology company, with the mission to enable open, accessible, and free information by build open technologies backed by open processes.

Challenge

Much of my work at Textile was on Tableland, and in particular Tableland Studio, which is an open source, permissionless cloud database built on SQLite. Our mission was to take various console and command line tools, which were the only way to use Tableland and build out a complete web application whilst building the community to use and support Tableland.

Role

As the lead product designer at Textile, I led the introduction and led the user-centred research and UX/UI design practices for the company and for Tableland.

Process

• Engaged with the developer community and reviewed developer feedback
• Designed user research and helped recruit research participants
• Designed the various iterations of the interface and integration into front-end development
• Introduced user research methods, tested product design through prototypes, conducted user interviews and compiled analysis and recommendations
• Performed design advocacy and worked to establish user-centred, design thinking.
• Setup analytics and created product design and direction recommendations

Results

• Led and helped launch the product design of a complete move from Command Line Interface (CLI) to web app GUI
• Presented process, design and findings at international conference in Brussels, Belgium (IPFS Camp 2024).